Academic articles analysing our impact

Below, we have gathered academic articles related to our Safe Delivery + programme, including our Safe Delivery App.

Articles from 2025

• Musie, M. R., Tagutanazvo, O. B., Sepeng, N. V., Mulaudzi, F. M., Hlongwane, T.: “A scoping review on continuing professional development programs for midwives: optimising management of obstetric emergencies and complications.” BMC Med Educ 2025 25, 296. 
• Mwandira, K., Lemma, S., Dube, A., Kohenour, A., Asebe, A. T., Kyamulabi, A., Seruwagi, G., Nakidde, C., Mwaba, K., Djellouli, N., Makwenda, C., Colbourn, T., Shawar, Y. R.: “Do global health networks facilitate innovation, learning and sharing? A qualitative analysis of the Quality-of-Care Network in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda.” PLOS Global Public Health 2025. 
• Thakur, K., Kaur, G., Kaur, N., Kaur, N., Junaid, P., Bashir, T., Sharma, A., Sharma, S., Kaur, D.: “Effectiveness of the Safe Delivery App in enhancing nursing students knowledge of maternal sepsis.” Int. J. of Adv. Res. 2025 840-846] (ISSN 2320-5407). 
• Sarala, M., Jayabharathi, B.: “Effectiveness of Nurse Led Educational Programme on Knowledge Regarding Mlearning Safe Delivery App Smong Staff Nurses.” Journal of Neonatal Surgery 2025 vol 14: 5.
• Babona D., Au L, Polomon C., Deb A., Cortier H., Agarwalla D., et al.: ““It’s like a book in the palm of my hand”: Adapting the Safe Delivery App for Papua New Guinea to improve quality of maternal and newborn care.” PLOS One 2025 vol. 20, 8.
• Das, S., Groenbaek, A., Rasmussen, J., Anilkumar, R., Kjærulff, K., Salad, J., Al-Gharabli, A., and Pearl, A.: “Strengthening the capacity of midwives in humanitarian and fragile settings using the safe delivery+ programme: Lessons from implementation in Jordan.” International Journal of Midwifery and Nursing Practice 2025 vol. 8, 1.
• Tesfaye, A., Anilkumar, R., Grønbæk, A., Workneh, H., Wubshet, H., Muhammed, M., and Abdirzak, F.: “Evaluating Safe Delivery App-integrated catchment-based clinical mentorship in Ethiopia’s Afar and Somali Regions.” International Journal of Midwifery and Nursing Practice 2025 vol. 8, 1.

Articles from 2024

• Hoffmann, I., Andersen, A., Lund, S., Nygaard, U., Joshua, D., Poulsen, A. (2023). “Smartphone apps hold promise for neonatal emergency care in low-resource settings”. Acta Pædiatrica v. 113, 12 (2024).
• Sreeram, A., Nair, R., Rahman, M. A.: “Efficacy of educational interventions on improving medical emergency readiness of rural healthcare providers: a scoping review.” BMC Health Serv Res 2024 24, 843.
• Gakwerere, M., Ndayisenga, J. P., Ngabonzima, A., Uhawenimana, T. C., Yamuragive, A., Harindimana, F., Rwabufigiri, B. N.: “Access to continuous professional development for capacity building among nurses and midwives providing emergency obstetric and neonatal care in Rwanda.” BMC Health Serv Res 2024 24, 394. 

Articles from 2023

• Nozaki, I., Rattana, K., Sothy, P., Tsukada, M., Williams, K.: “Introduction and roll-out of self-learning App for midwifery during the COVID-19 pandemic and its sustainability in Cambodia.”. Global Health & Medicine 2023 vol. 5, 3.
  
• Vallely, L., Babona, D., Au, L., Bolnga, J., Laman, M., Polomon, C., Kelly-Hanku, A., Riddell, M., Homer, C.: “Adapting the Safe Delivery App for Papua New Guinea.” Women and Birth 2023 vol. 36 supplement 1. 
• Hellerung Christiansen, A., Lund Sørensen, B., Boas, I., Bedesa, T., Fekede, W., Svarre Nielsen, H., Lund, S.: “The impact of the Safe Delivery Application on knowledge and skills managing postpartum haemorrhage in a low resource setting: a cluster randomized controlled trial in West Wollega region, Ethiopia.” Reproductive Health 2023 vol. 20, article number: 91.
• Choure, J.,  Bhargav, N., Gupta, C. R. R.: “A Study to Assess the Effectiveness and Utility of “Safe Delivery App” among Staff Nurses Working in People’s Hospital Bhopal.” International Journal of Enhanced Research in Medicines & Dental Care (IJERMDC) 2023 ISSN: 2349-1590, Vol. 10 Issue 1.

Articles from 2022

• Nishimwe, A., Ibisomi, L., Nyssen, M. . “The effect of a decision-support mHealth application on maternal and neonatal outcomes in two district hospitals in Rwanda: pre – post intervention study.” BMC Pregnancy Childbirth vol. 22, 52.
• Nishimwe, A., Conco, D. N., Nyssen, Marc., Ibisomi, L.: “A mixed-method study exploring experiences, perceptions, and acceptability of using a safe delivery mHealth application in two district hospitals in Rwanda.” BMC Nurs 2022 21, 176.
• Singh Sodha, T., Grønbæk, A. Bhandari, A., Mary, B., Sudke, A., Smith, L. T.: “mHealth learning tool for skilled birth attendants: Scaling the Safe Delivery App in India.” BMJ Open Quality 2022 11:e001928.
• Mahboubi, M., Grønbæk, A., Fernandes, A., Fibæk, C., & Dabove, P.: “Geospatial Analysis of Safe Delivery App Events Based on Geographically Weighted Regression” Tool. AGILE: GIScience Series 2022  3, 1-6.
• Olaniyi, B. Y., del Río, A. F., Preiáñez, Á., Bellhouse, L.: “User Engagement in Mobile Health Applications.” arXiv:2206.08178v2 2022.
• Oladeji, O., Tessema, M., Oladeji, B.: “Strengthening quality of maternal and newborn care using catchment based clinical mentorship and safe delivery app: A case study from Somali region of Ethiopia.” International Journal of Midwifery and Nursing Practice 2022 vol. 5, 1, 13-18.
• Sarin, E.^, Dastidar, S. G., Bisht, N., Bajpayee, D., Patel, R., Sodha, T. S., Bhandari, A., Mohanty, J. S., Dey, S., Chandra, S., Agrawal, R., Saboth, P., Kumar, H.: “Safe Delivery application with facilitation increases knowledge and confidence of obstetric and neonatal care among frontline health workers in India.” Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care: June 2022 vol. 11 – Issue 6 – p 2695-2708.
• Nishimwe, A., Conco, D. N., Nyssen, M., & Ibisomi, L.: “Context specific realities and experiences of nurses and midwives in basic emergency obstetric and newborn care services in two district hospitals in Rwanda: a qualitative study.”  BMC nursing 2022 vol. 21, 1.

Articles from 2021

• Guitart, A., Fernández del Río, A., Periáñez, Á., Bellhouse, L. (2021): “Midwifery Learning and Forecasting: Predicting Content Demand with User-Generated Logs”. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 2023 v. 138.
• Guitart, A., Heydari, A., Olaleye, W., Ljubicic, J., Fernández del Río, A., Periáñez, Á., Bellhouse, L.: “A Recommendation System to Enhance Midwives’ Capacities in Low-Income Countries”. NeurIPS Machine Learning in Public Health workshop arXiv 2021 2111.01786v2.
• Nishimwe, A., Ibisomi, L., Nyssen, M., & Conco, D. N.: “The effect of an mLearning application on nurses’ and midwives’ knowledge and skills for the management of postpartum hemorrhage and neonatal resuscitation: pre-post intervention study. ” Human resources for health 2021, vol. 19, 1.

Articles from 2020

• Parellada, C. B., Boas, I. M., Nielsen, H. S., & Lund, S.: “User patterns of the Safe Delivery App; explorations from a cluster randomized controlled trial in Ethiopia. ” Journal of Health Informatics in Developing Countries 2020 vol. 14, 1.

Articles from 2019

• Klokkenga, C. M. B., Enemark, U., Adanu, R., Lund, S., Sørensen, B. L., & Attermann, J.: “The effect of smartphone training of Ghanaian midwives by the Safe Delivery application on the incidence of postpartum hemorrhage: a cluster randomised controlled trial.” Cogent Medicine 2019 vol.  6:1, 1632016.
• Thomsen, C. F., Barrie, A., Boas, I. M., Lund, S., Sørensen, B. L., Oljira, F. G., & Tersbøl, B. P.: “Health workers’ experiences with the Safe Delivery App in West Wollega Zone, Ethiopia: a qualitative study.” Reproductive health 2019 vol. 16, 1.
• Usmani, S., Chhugani, M., & Khan, M.: “A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Safe Delivery Application for Pre-Service Nursing Students in a Selected College of Nursing of New Delhi.”  International Journal of Nursing & Midwifery Research 2019 vol. 6, 4.

Articles from 2018

• Bolan, N. E., Sthreshley, L., Ngoy, B., Ledy, F., Ntayingi, M., Makasy, D., Mbuyi, M. C., Lowa, G., Nemeth, L., & Newman, S.: ”mLearning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Mixed-Methods Feasibility and Pilot Cluster Randomized Trial Using the Safe Delivery App.” Glob Health Sci Pract. 2018 Dec. 27;6 (4) :693-710.
  
• Bolan, N. newman, S. D., Nemeth, L. S.: ”Technology-Based Newborn Health Learning Initiatives for Facility-Based Nurses and Midwives in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review.” International Journal of Childbirth 2028 Dec. 8 (4): 252-268.

Articles from 2016

• Lund, S., Boas, I. M., Bedesa, T., Fekede, W., Nielsen, H. S., & Sørensen, B. L.: “Association Between the Safe Delivery App and Quality of Care and Perinatal Survival in Ethiopia: A Randomized Clinical Trial.”  JAMA pediatrics 2016 170, 8, 765–771.